The name Obal in Hebrew letters is עובל. Below: how its number adds up, which page of the Torah it falls on and what verse stands there. Everything is computed, nothing is guessed.
עובל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עובל. A Tanakh name: a son of Joktan (first in Genesis 10:28; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 108 — the same as the Torah word חק, “statute, allotted portion”. That number points to Torah page 108 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 21:24. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name עובל gives 108.
108
The number 108 is the Torah word חק — «statute, allotted portion» (Genesis 47:22).
And Moses said: 'We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go; for we must hold a feast unto HaShem.'
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
Other ways of counting
The tradition counts the same name in several ways. The main one is above: each letter is its number. The other eight are old and checkable too; each gives its own number, and many of them have a Torah word with the same number.
Final letters as 500–900 (mispar gadol) — 108. A Torah word with the same number is חק — “statute, allotted portion” (Genesis 47:22).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 36. A Torah word with the same number is אלה — “these” (Genesis 2:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 454. A Torah word with the same number is תמיד — “continually, perpetual” (Exodus 25:30).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5840.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 332. A Torah word with the same number is לבש — “to put on, clothe” (Genesis 3:21).
The letters that come out are זפשכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 407. A Torah word with the same number is אות — “sign” (Genesis 1:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 628. A Torah word with the same number is בכרתו — “his birthright” (Genesis 25:33).
The number 108 appears in the classical books 15 times across 10 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, day 861 of your life (±1), the psalm by age, the attestations from the classical books — a PDF sent to your email.
The number of the day, every morning
Every date has a number too. Once a year it will match the number of your name — 108. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
Hebrew is written from right to left. עובל has 4 letters: ע Ayin, ו Vav, ב Bet, ל Lamed. The first letter is Ayin, the last is Lamed.
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The name עובל appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 10:28.
The verse of your name
There is a custom: at the end of the prayer one says a Torah verse that begins with the first letter of one's name and ends with its last. For עובל these are ע and ל. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 21:24:
עין תחת עין שן תחת שן יד תחת יד רגל תחת רגל
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
The name עובל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 108 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Each Hebrew letter has a number; a word's number is their sum (alef 1 … tav 400). The page is the remainder modulo 354: the Torah divided into 354 pages of 861 letters, as the lunar year has 354 days. Everything can be checked by hand.
